THE Northern Ireland Council for Post-Graduate Medical Education sponsored a management course on this subject for general medical and general dental practitioners in the Ballygally Castle Hotel from 29th October to 3rd November, 1972. The course was arranged through the Northern Ireland Staffs Council for Health & Welfare Services and directed by two senior consultants of the Industrial Traini...

3 This guidance complements the joint statement from the healthcare regulators and gives more information about how to follow the principles set out in Good medical practice2 and The Code: Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses and midwives.3 Appendix 1 sets out relevant extracts from General Medical Council (GMC) and Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) guidance. This guida...

s: Thematic Session – Disaster Health Management THEMATIC SESSION E1: DISASTER HEALTH MANAGEMENT Chairperson: Dr. N. K. Ganguly Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi

Dear Editor: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has mandated that all residency training programs teach and assess 6 general competencies. The American Board of Ophthalmology has recommended that a seventh competency in surgery be required. At the time of the writing of this letter, surgery still is included by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education in th...

Heckman for North-Holland. The first and third authors acknowledge financial support from the UK Economic and Social Research Council under an award for General Equilibrium Analysis of UK Policy Issues; the third author also acknowledges support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. We are grateful to Andres Erosa and Gustavo Ventura for helpful comments on an earl...

190 J Pak Med Assoc Madam, Communication and Interpersonal Skills (CIPS) comprise an integral component of medical professionalism.1-4 Effective CIPS augment quality health care delivery, patient satisfaction, outcomes and physician's confidence.1-3,5 Quite understandably, regulatory bodies such as Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (USA), General Medical Council (UK) and Coll...

This project was supported, in part, by General Purpose Revenue funds of the State of Wisconsin to the University of Wisconsin System for the performance of research on groundwater quality and quantity. Selection of projects was conducted on a competitive basis through a joint solicitation from the University and the Wisconsin Departments of Natural Resources; Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Pr...

The Constitution of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) lays out provisions governance by its Council. Members Council hold office six years and are voted upon general membership. eligible re-election to same office. Current membership can be seen at https://www.iaptglobal.org/council. Before end six-year term, two nominations each elected positions on Executive Committee (P...

The Medical School started off in an old female lunatic asylum on the site of the general hospital at Sepoy Lines. It was founded on 3 July 1905 and was called the Straits and Federated Malay States Government Medical School. In 1916, the Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery (LMS) was recognised fully by the General Medical Council of Britain as a registrable qualification. In 1921, the medical s...

The Impediments of Implementing the Bills Ratified by the Provincial Council of Education in East Azerbaijan R. Rabavi S. Maleki Aavaarsin, Ph.D. J. Torkzaadeh, Ph.D. To identify the impediments of implementing the decisions made by the provincial council of education in East Azerbaijan, a randomly selected sample of 264 council members was given a questionnaire consisting of th...